New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-17
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THE TRIM THISTLE IS HERE.
SHE MADE A FINE PASSAGE ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
ADMIRED BY CROWDS AT HER ANCHORAGE oP1
TOMPKINsvILLE-THE VOYAGE ALMOST WITH
OUT NCIDENr-CAPTAIN BARR's


TOMPKINsvILLE-THE VOYAGE ALMOST WITH
OUT INCIDENr-CAPTAIN BARR's
QUIET CONFIDENCE.
The Thistle has arrived. The champion Scottish
yacht cast anchor of Tompldnsvlle, S. l., abous
40 a. m. yesterday, looking remarkably trim
after her buffeting with Atlantic waves and Winds
AT p. m. on Monday, when about forty-one miles
southeast of Sandy Hook, Captain Barr got his rse
American greeting from Pilot Charles Anderson
who boarded the Thistle from the pilot boat
Charles II. Marshall, No. 3. Forging slowly along
before light breeze about p. nj. Navesing Light
bore northwest twenty miles distant
At o'clock yesterday morning Sandy
Hook Lightship was passed at dis
tance Of three miles, and at 3 30 o'clock Scot
land Lightship, two miles away, and at o'clock
the tug Wendell Goodwin took the Thistle in tow
and brought her up to the snug anchorage opposite
the Corinthian Yacht Club house, where she made
fast in six fathoms of water As she came into
New-York harbor she was recognized and hailed
with the roar of steam whistles. At Quarantine
the Health Officer came on board and gave
clean bi1". after brief inspection.
Shortly after she dropped anchor a swarm OF
rOwboats went out to her to find that rigidly
enforcednotice no admittance except on bus ness"
had already been posted up to prevent the
yacht from being overrun by curiosity seekers
The revenue cutter Grant came alongside and
saluted with her whistle. The Thistlcs Grew
answered by dipping her ensign and cheering.
Then an inspector was sent from the Grant to gct
the strangers manifest, which only recorded the
ship stores and few bottles of genuine usqucbaugh
AS the day advanced and the Staten Islanders
began to be astir the shore was thrOnged with
gazers at the new conner, and yachtSmen and people
who knew nothing about yachting alike exhausted
their vocabulary of terms OF admiration D
commenting on her.
She's beauty and no mstakel'
Never anything like her!"
Such were expressions that could be heard on
every hand, and this in spite of her stumpy
tOpmast and shortened bowsprit. If in her storm
rig she stands criticism well, how will she look
In her racing gear cleaned, vanished, made ship
shape, with the bi. spars now lying in tic shed
of the old ferry landing at Tompkinsville fitted
up? She weathered Atlantic gales in small sails,
small topmast, gaff and boom, and made capital
sailing record under circumstances not by any
means too favorable. What Will she do when she
spreads out her white wings to the wind?
/. "Ycs, sir, you ought to see her them" said
one of the to TRIBUNE reporter Il tell
you she is regular hyern Her transatlantic
trip occupied about twenty days and twenty
hours. The following are the names Of
the picked crew of Scotchmen % whom her owners
Iutrusted her: Commander. Captain Barr naYi-
gator, Captain Donald Kerr; mate. Aleck" " Me-
Don Id; second mate. Dan Mckenzie; steward.
William Wright; carpenter, Jonn Crawford sail
maker, John Graham. Gourock; caterer, Hugh
Hewitt; cook, Alexander Hit; second cook. Arcdi-
bald McNicnOu; coxswan. John Fife; sea-
men. William Holmes. William Craig James
Hughes, James SLeuden. Archibald MCINTYRE
Angus Kennedy James Whke. John Graham, In
verness; Dan MckelIar and William Guii his.
These all hail from Clyde-side Arran, aud the
Highlands aud are. from the captain and tne nav
igator downward, an exceptionally fine body OF
men. They arr tall bIonzed, beaded aud
a,hl,tic Most of them have crossed the ocean
betOre-some Of them with the Clara-aud under
Captain Barr they have raced she Thist5 ycO- ions
ly in British waters aud bTavely resc ed the crew
of the steamer Harkaway, which foundered IN a
gale on Nav 20
Wnle the rnlstle's passage across was compare
lively uneveDtful, it ranks among remarkable ocean
crossings derlng the Of the craft the sa sho
carried, and the facts that she severely shaken
up shortly after the Null of Cantyre passed out OK
sight and becailed time and again. Captain Kerr
has every reason 10 congratulate hlmselt. tic
showed a TRIBUNE reporter the chart, and pointed
to a red line snarkIng his course. Ii was marvel
lously straight and far from thc tracks OF tho
great ocean steamers The following table If the
distance made each day. with the latitude and
longitude at the daily observation, viii give some
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